17) Summertime

Summer 1999

It had been a summer of musical love. The moon was in the seventh house and Napster had appeared in June. Peace ruled the planet and love steered the stars. Millions of tie dyed adolescents, flowers in their hair, came together in harmony and understanding. They spent their golden days of summer, ripping mystic CD revelations, toward the mind’s true liberation.

It was the dawning of the age…

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I can’t tell you how many times I heard some variation of the Aquarian story. I remembered it slightly differently. I remember Napster happening during wartime and leading directly to the casualties of four college students.